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Broken Romania: slot machines, electronic cigarettes and drugs have invaded schools. What Iohannis got instead of Educated Romania

Broken Romania: slot machines, electronic cigarettes and drugs have invaded schools. What Iohannis got instead of Educated Romania

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10 iun.
The entire Romania looks like an out-of-control Las Vegas: thousands of slot halls and casinos, huge ads for electronic cigarettes and casinos with half-dressed girls, drugs in almost every high school. These three vices are tolerated or even encouraged by the PSD-PNL coalition, under the uncaring eye of President Iohannis. And the main victims are […]
BREAKING A woman whose 12-year-old child was killed in the 1989 Revolution has set herself on fire in Poiana Brasov in protest for the delay of the Revolution file. Police and prosecutors kept quiet for two weeks

BREAKING A woman whose 12-year-old child was killed in the 1989 Revolution has set herself on fire in Poiana Brasov in protest for the delay of the Revolution file. Police and prosecutors kept quiet for two weeks

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09 iun.
Hungarian analyst, former intelligence officer: Viktor Orban seeks to gain new territories and relies on Russia to change the political order in Europe

Hungarian analyst, former intelligence officer: Viktor Orban seeks to gain new territories and relies on Russia to change the political order in Europe

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08 iun. • 1
New teachers' protest in Bucharest scheduled for Thursday or Friday / Strike continues / Union leader Marius Nistor: We want guarantees from the government on the new pay scale and the salary of entry-level teachers

New teachers’ protest in Bucharest scheduled for Thursday or Friday / Strike continues / Union leader Marius Nistor: We want guarantees from the government on the new pay scale and the salary of entry-level teachers

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08 iun.
"Smoking epidemic" among teenagers in Romania. E-cigarettes and heated tobacco still bypass anti-smoking laws, with major cities besieged by ads

„Smoking epidemic” among teenagers in Romania. E-cigarettes and heated tobacco still bypass anti-smoking laws, with major cities besieged by ads

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05 iun. • 1
US Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec: We know that Russia could try to limit Black Sea shipments at any time, so Romania's role becomes even more important in finding alternative routes for Ukraine's grain

US Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec: We know that Russia could try to limit Black Sea shipments at any time, so Romania’s role becomes even more important in finding alternative routes for Ukraine’s grain

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03 iun.
LATEST President Biden announced at G7 that the US is preparing $4 billion in loans for Romania's small nuclear reactor project to strengthen energy independence

LATEST President Biden announced at G7 that the US is preparing $4 billion in loans for Romania’s small nuclear reactor project to strengthen energy independence

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20 mai • 1
Nepotism Exposed: 10 Cases of Nepotism at Dolj Public Health Authority; Director, Sister, Husband-Wife, and More Among Ten Employees Linked by Family Ties; A DSP employee charged with inspecting hospitals, also uses his company to provide market consultancy for hospitals; Cases reported by two integrity whistleblowers

Nepotism Exposed: 10 Cases of Nepotism at Dolj Public Health Authority; Director, Sister, Husband-Wife, and More Among Ten Employees Linked by Family Ties; A DSP employee charged with inspecting hospitals, also uses his company to provide market consultancy for hospitals; Cases reported by two integrity whistleblowers

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20 mai
Teachers' Strike: Ciolacu's First Black Swan Moment as PSD Braces for First-Time Governance Amidst Massive Social Problems

Teachers’ Strike: Ciolacu’s First Black Swan Moment as PSD Braces for First-Time Governance Amidst Massive Social Problems

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18 mai
With a starting net salary of only 2,400 lei for new teachers, the general strike in education was only a matter of time. Ciolacu is now paying for the lack of any reform of the coalition he co-chairs even before he takes office as prime minister. The era of EU money flowing effortlessly and without […]
Mechanism to control the use of secret service recordings in criminal cases declared unconstitutional / Constitutional Court: "The legislator did not regulate an effective control of the elements related to the legality of the recordings" / Elimination of the threshold for abuse of office is constitutional

Mechanism to control the use of secret service recordings in criminal cases declared unconstitutional / Constitutional Court: „The legislator did not regulate an effective control of the elements related to the legality of the recordings” / Elimination of the threshold for abuse of office is constitutional

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18 mai
EXCLUSIVE Romanian Anticorruption prosecutors have requested documents from Romgaz regarding the €1 billion deal with ExxonMobil for the Neptun Black Sea field

EXCLUSIVE Romanian Anticorruption prosecutors have requested documents from Romgaz regarding the €1 billion deal with ExxonMobil for the Neptun Black Sea field

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17 mai
With schools all but shut down after a holiday-like school year, coalition party leaders Ciolacu and Ciuca are occupied with negotiation of cabinet positions in the government rotation. Teachers' strike will be discussed on a Thursday

With schools all but shut down after a holiday-like school year, coalition party leaders Ciolacu and Ciuca are occupied with negotiation of cabinet positions in the government rotation. Teachers’ strike will be discussed on a Thursday

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17 mai
Braila gangster "Dasaev" sentenced to 12 years in prison in the 2018 stabbings of two American basketball players. Sentence can be appealed

Braila gangster „Dasaev” sentenced to 12 years in prison in the 2018 stabbings of two American basketball players. Sentence can be appealed

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17 mai
While Romanian Communications Minister (PNL) Burduja (Jr.) was arguing for the “freedom in the West vs. the Russian chains” from the floor of Parliament, his Father, Burduja (Sr.) held the Directorship of ALRO SA, an aluminium producer controlled by a Russian oligarch." How Marinel Burduja became director of ALRO SA, the largest producer of aluminum in Romania 

While Romanian Communications Minister (PNL) Burduja (Jr.) was arguing for the “freedom in the West vs. the Russian chains” from the floor of Parliament, his Father, Burduja (Sr.) held the Directorship of ALRO SA, an aluminium producer controlled by a Russian oligarch.” How Marinel Burduja became director of ALRO SA, the largest producer of aluminum in Romania 

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15 mai • 1
Why the Turkish elections are important for Romania? Turkish citizens in Constanta and Bucharest chose the opposition when half of the votes were counted/ Ankara is Bucharest's main non-EU economic partner

Why the Turkish elections are important for Romania? Turkish citizens in Constanta and Bucharest chose the opposition when half of the votes were counted/ Ankara is Bucharest’s main non-EU economic partner

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15 mai
The key to a pivotal election for the entire EU: How can the course of accession negotiations with Turkey change if Erdogan is defeated in Sunday's presidential election?

The key to a pivotal election for the entire EU: How can the course of accession negotiations with Turkey change if Erdogan is defeated in Sunday’s presidential election?

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14 mai
Far-right AUR party's government program: a collection of monstrosities from the ashes of Bolshevism, Legionarism and Communism

Far-right AUR party’s government program: a collection of monstrosities from the ashes of Bolshevism, Legionarism and Communism

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12 mai
The government program presented on Thursday by the AUR leaders at the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is more intelligently written than the primitive forms presented in the past by populists like Vadim Tudor (Romania Mare) or Dan Diaconescu, but just as toxic for democracy, anti-Western and dangerous for the rule of law. In […]
The European Commission has rejected Romania's €1.4 billion REPowerUE plan, announces MEP Dragoș Pîslaru / EU Projects Minister Boloș: It was not rejected, they asked us for additional information

The European Commission has rejected Romania’s €1.4 billion REPowerUE plan, announces MEP Dragoș Pîslaru / EU Projects Minister Boloș: It was not rejected, they asked us for additional information

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12 mai
Far Right party AUR proposes in its government program the nationalization of OMV Petrom and other strategic companies / The establishment of real "People's Tribunals" to "settle serious criminal cases and collective or class trials"

Far Right party AUR proposes in its government program the nationalization of OMV Petrom and other strategic companies / The establishment of real „People’s Tribunals” to „settle serious criminal cases and collective or class trials”

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11 mai
How will the government reshuffle that buries the PNL take place / Ciolacu's bet

How will the government reshuffle that buries the PNL take place / Ciolacu’s bet

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10 mai • 2
The change at the top of the government will take place without major political shake-ups in the coalition, nor within the PNL or PSD, according to information obtained by G4Media.ro. The only ones worried about losing a ministry are the UDMR, but it’s hard to believe they’ll go all the way to leaving the government. […]
EXCLUSIVE How the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition quietly modified the surcharge by which it wanted a billion euros from OMV Petrom: two meetings between Prime Minister Ciucă and the company's representatives, plus a vague request for review from President Iohannis

EXCLUSIVE How the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition quietly modified the surcharge by which it wanted a billion euros from OMV Petrom: two meetings between Prime Minister Ciucă and the company’s representatives, plus a vague request for review from President Iohannis

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10 mai